How old were you when you played it?

Upon seeing the port to modern systems (https://github.com/jorio/Bugdom), I figured it should be able to run entirely in-browser nowadays, and also that AI coding tools "should" be able to do this entire project for me. I ended up spending perhaps 20 hours on it with Claude Code, but we got there.

Once ported, I added a half-dozen mods that would have pleased my childhood self (like low-gravity mode and flying slugs & caterpillars mode), and a few that please my current self (like Dance Party mode).

EDIT: Here are some mod/level combinations I recommend

* https://reallyeli.com/bugdom/Bugdom.html?gravity=0.3&video=s...

* https://reallyeli.com/bugdom/Bugdom.html?level=3&visual=2&gr...

* https://reallyeli.com/bugdom/Bugdom.html?level=8&flying_slug...

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> "上半期（2024年1月～6月）に退職代行サービスを利用して退職した人がいた企業は23.2％だった。また、過去の退職代行利用者の実績を年度別に聞くと、2021年は16.3％、2022年は19.5％、2023年は19.9％"

These seem like full-year numbers, but they're much lower than what I'd expect if 23.2% is the half-year number — implying a huge jump in 2024?

They say 16.6% of people who changed jobs last year used these services, but only 23.2% of companies report having any employees use them. If 16.6% is correct, the % of companies number should be much higher, supposing companies have multiple resignations per year.

The method for the first number on how they found their respondents is described just as "internet survey," with no further info. There are a lot of ways to do this that would over-sample people who use these services.

Still not really what I'm after, but that's what the 'Following' tab is for.

People are alleging that OpenAI is calling out to a chess engine, but seem to be not considering this less scandalous possibility.

Of course, to the extent people are touting chess performance as evidence of general reasoning capabilities, OpenAI taking costly actions to boost specifically chess performance and not being transparent about it is still frustrating and, imo, dishonest.

But will we maintain control of the above-human-ability, autonomous AI systems these companies are racing to build? This is the AI control problem.

If not, then "AI can automate science" isn't much of a counterpoint or reason to be optimistic -- science may be automated, but not under any human's control and not for any human's benefit. In fact, if we're in this situation, the ability of AI systems to automate science is worse news than otherwise, in the same way that the invention of science by humans was bad (or at best, very mixed) news for the animals of Earth.

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https://cities.ycr.org/ is now an expired Squarespace page. I assume the project is no longer active. I'm interested in a postmortem, or any other details about what happened.

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A friend is applying to bootcamps. (Literally asking for a friend!) I'm trying to help my friend out, so I'm trying to get a sense of what the difference in prestige between different bootcamps is.

If you were hiring for a junior web developer position and you were reviewing a recent grad from either A) The Flatiron School or B) Lambda School, which would you prefer? How strong of a preference?

(And is there any C) other bootcamp which would produce a strong preference?)

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If this isn't the place, though, I understand.

In practice, how do you tell if you're being carrier filtered? What circumstances have you observed it happening in? What is a safe line to stay within?

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